Author: NFA JayShawn

From today’s order by Laura Provinzino (D. Minn.) in Kohls v. Ellison (see this Nov. 19 post for more): Minnesota law prohibits, under certain circumstances, the dissemination of “deepfakes” with the intent to injure a political candidate or influence the result of an election. Plaintiffs challenge the statute on First Amendment grounds and seek preliminary […]

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Most Supreme Court watchers today were focused on the oral argument in the TikTok case, but that’s not all that was going on at One First Street. Today the Supreme Court granted certiorari in three cases: Becerra v. Braidwood Management, Department of Education v. Career Colleges and Schools of Texas, and Commissioner of Internal Revenue […]

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The stock market had a wild ride this week, with major players like the Dow, NASDAQ, and S&P 500 facing a steep sell-off. The reason? A surprise December jobs report and fresh inflation concerns. Jobs data showed a hot labor market, with over 250,000 jobs added last month and unemployment dipping to 4.1%. While that’s […]

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On Wednesday, President-elect Donald Trump’s lawyers urged the U.S. Supreme Court to block his sentencing in New York for falsifying business records to conceal his 2016 hush payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. Todd Blanche, whom Trump plans to appoint as his deputy attorney general, and D. John Sauer, Trump’s pick for solicitor general, warned […]

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Today Judge Merchan issued a sentence against President-Elect Trump, and presumably created a final appealable judgment. But could he? President Trump has tried to remove this case to federal court under the federal officer removal statute. I wrote about the statute here, and Tillman and I explained why the case could not be removed here. […]

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The Supreme Court appeared largely—though not entirely—unmoved by arguments that a federal ban on TikTok would violate the First Amendment rights of the app’s millions of American users. During oral arguments before the Court on Friday, the justices seemed inclined to agree with the federal government that a national security rationale was sufficient to force […]

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The disastrous fires in the Los Angeles area have now claimed at least 10 lives and damaged or destroyed 9,000 structures, according to local officials. With insured losses expected to exceed $20 billion, the wildfires are on track to be the most expensive on record. Though many factors contributed to the devastation (such as fire […]

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It’s official. 2024 was the hottest year in the instrumental record. How hot? Last year the global average temperature rose more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 19th century pre-industrial mean, according to most of the scientific organizations that track global temperature trends. This exceeds, for the first time, the aspirational goal […]

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Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. New on the Short Circuit podcast: Major Questions about the SEC and dirt sampling without a warrant. Going in the other direction from most states, in 2023, Virginia legislators outlawed certain products containing THC […]

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Let us first stipulate that Los Angeles city and county, as well as the entire Golden State, could have had the best governance in the history of human affairs, yet still there would have been property-destroying fires in Southern California this week. When the National Weather Service issues a rare “Particularly Dangerous Situation” (PDS) fire […]

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